Frame

Tucked in the western grandstand imagine
Wrigley: a sliver of light, orange-green

beams gone between Golden Arches
as scoreboard plates clink in place.

The fourth inning haze filters the sun—
a yolk yawning itself undone

in the upper deck air—to curve against
each pillar, straining my gaze in Aisle 228.

My father gripes and wipes his nose
through the April game—
the team terrible again—

yet players lope over this green hill
and our minds agree to rise
and clap for them.

ξ

“Frame” was first published in Southwest Review.

Sandra Marchetti is the author of Confluence, a full-length collection of poetry from Sundress Publications (2015) and four chapbooks of poetry and lyric essays. Her poetry appears in Ecotone, Blackbird, The Hollins Critic, Southwest Review, Subtropics, and elsewhere. Sandra’s essays can be found in Pleiades, Mid-American Review, Barrelhouse, and other venues. She edits poetry for River Styx Magazine.

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